A Demon's Whispers

Serena Drake should never have survived the mountain.Beneath the Swiss Alps, an avalanche exposes something impossible: blue crystal, ancient voices, and a darkness that answers grief. When Francesco Visconti dies in the snow, Serena does the one thing no one should be able to do.She brings him back.Six years later, Serena has built a life around that miracle.Francesco is gentle, patient, loving - the same boy she lost, or close enough that she has learned not to question the difference. Their wedding should be proof that the nightmare beneath the Alps is finally over.But old doors do not stay closed.A friend begins hearing chimes in empty rooms. A grieving brother becomes obsessed with a forgotten name.Francesco's family sense something wrong in the man theylove but cannot bear to doubt. And Serena's own dreams start whispering that the miracle she has trusted may have hidden a terrible cost.As the past reaches for her newborn daughter, Serena is forced to face the one question she has spent years avoiding: when she called Francesco back from death, what truly answered?